LISBON · LISBON ESCAPE GAMES
The good escape games give up their weekend slots first. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Explore Lisbon’s queer past and present on a 3.5-hour walking tour with Alex, ending at a gay hotel with drinks, stories, and local tips.
“Loved every second of it! We had just gotten off of a 9 day gay cruise so we were feeling it by the end of the tour since it is pretty extensive and you will be WALKING! The stories, the magic, the connection make it all work it.”
Solve the Lusiadas theft across Lisbon with live actors, puzzles, landmarks, photos, and a private two-hour mystery game.
“An original and fun discovery of Lisbon, we had a great time with friends, thank you!Auto-translated”
Explore Lisbon with a private outdoor escape game, solving clues downtown with a tablet, action pack, and live game master.
“Had an amazing morning discovering Lisbon decrypting clues to “save the planet” a fantastic way to explore Lisbon and have fun at the same time. Would firmly recommend it.”
Solve clues across Lisbon’s Baixa for $21 with a private 90-minute outdoor escape game, English host, city sights, and teamwork.
“We made the Time Cops Outdoor Escape, was a great way to see a part of Lisbon. Constança was a great gamemaster. She explaines everything very good and was there if we needed help.”
Explore Lisbon’s Baixa and Chiado with a self-guided app hunt covering landmarks, puzzles, photo tasks, and flexible breaks for $9.24.
“Me and My friends loved this experience, it was so fun walking around Lisbon and discover it’s amazing history!”
Solve the Lusiadas theft across Lisbon’s Old Town with actors, puzzles, viewpoints, pastries, photos, and a private group.
“Nice Story. Excellent Guide. In General a good Event with even more potential. Time is Limited for each task. So it could Happen that it forces you to Switch to The next Station without solving The task.”
Solve six historical puzzles across Lisbon’s Bairro Alto in this clever outdoor escape game about Marquis Pombal.
“We had an excellent moment visiting Lisbao with this activity, it was very well thought and it gave us cool details about Lisbao history.”
Explore Lisbon’s Alfama through puzzles, fado lore, hilltop views, and historic churches in a flexible self-guided game for $7.20.
“Utilizamos a versão portuguesa e deparamo-nos com traduções mal feitas, palavras não adequadas, o que nos levou a ter dificuldade em identificar algumas orientações e até mesmo respostas. Uma das respostas está errada. De forma geral a experiência foi divertida. Se fizerem melhorias na tradução ainda se tornará melhor para futuros jogadores.”
Follow Lisbon’s Freemason trail from Praça do Comércio to Trindade with a flexible phone-based puzzle game full of history.
“It is a great way to experience the city and the spots you might not normally pay attention to. The last 2-3 stops where the nicest. We also learned some more about the history of Lisbon.”
Review of Lisbon’s Belém self-guided scavenger hunt, with stops, price, app details, family appeal, drawbacks, and booking advice.
“Not the first time in Belém, but seemed like so. Explorial told me lots of things that I didn't know about Belém, and it was great! I will definitely repeat this experience in other cities!”
Explore Óbidos with a low-cost app-based scavenger hunt covering the castle, old town sights, puzzles, photos, and flexible self-guided walking.
“Qué gran forma de conocer a Óbidos! Nos gustaron los puzzles y usar el mapa para encontrar las ubicaciones. Fue una experiencia divertida y amena. Hemos parado para descansar, comer chocolate y degustar algunas ginjinhas. Repetiremos este juego en nuestro próximo viaje a Lisboa!”
Review of Lisboa’s AXN Prison Robbery escape room, with pricing, puzzles, timing, group size, languages, and booking tips.
Solve Pombal’s six-part cryptex while walking Lisbon’s Bairro Alto, with history, views, teamwork, and puzzles for $29.
“This was a really fun activity during our stay in Lisbon, takes 2-2.5 hours. The cryptex really dives into the past of Lisbon, the difficulty level matched with our group. Alex is a really nice guy, he hosted the game perfectly.”
Explore Lisbon’s Old Town by phone, solving clues from the Trinity Convent to Alfama for $7.25 and flexible, self-guided fun.
“It's broken. The first two instructions are out of order and overall the instructions are not very good. If this was free-content, I'd think "oh, that's ok, just needs a bit of polishing", but for something I payed 10EUR? Yeah, not acceptable.”
Explore Lisbon’s landmarks at your own pace with a phone-based scavenger hunt covering nine sights in about two and a half hours.
“Very poor… I wasn’t able to get my tickets and the chat was extremely unhelpful. I even tried contacting Support and it was very unhelpful also”
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